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Viktor Frankenstein climbs Montevert alone and unexpectedly comes face-to-face with the creature he abandoned.
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00:15We now present George Edwards in Frankenstein.
00:27Baron Victor Frankenstein.
00:30He's relating his tragic story to Captain Walton of the good ship Voyager.
00:34The vessel is icebound somewhere near the North Pole.
00:38Frankenstein is taking shelter there.
00:40He told the captain of the creation of the monster
00:42and of events leading up to the monster's escape and the murder of Julio.
00:58You look much better this morning, Baron Frankenstein.
01:01I trust you had a good night's sleep.
01:03I feel better, thank you, Captain.
01:05Tell me, what happened after you discovered the body of your servant Julio?
01:09I recall it quite clearly.
01:12My friend Ernst Claval and myself were in the laboratory.
01:16We found that the door of the monster's room had been burst open
01:20and there was the broken body of Julio lying upon the floor.
01:25We bent over the body and then...
01:28Do you realize, Victor, that you have unleashed a monster upon the world?
01:32A killer?
01:34Anybody's life may be in danger.
01:35We must make a search immediately.
01:37I will organize a search party.
01:39All the peasants on the estate can join in the search.
01:41I now realize the enormity of my crime.
01:44I will aid you, but I do not know what Elizabeth will say when she learns of this.
01:49What are the authorities going to say?
01:51How am I going to explain the broken body of Julio?
01:54You will have to tell the truth to the police.
01:56But they will not believe me.
01:58They think I am mad.
02:00Oh, you were mad to attempt this experiment.
02:03I am only sorry that it has succeeded.
02:06Elizabeth will be appalled when she hears this news.
02:08I will search for the monster, I promise you.
02:11But I do not think there is anything further to fear, Ernst.
02:15The monster will perish.
02:17I wish that this were only a dream, some horrible nightmare,
02:23and I could awaken to find it was not true.
02:26God, Julio's body proves the truth of what has happened.
02:29I know.
02:30But somehow my fear has vanished.
02:33I am going to seek my own happiness now.
02:36Oh, how can you talk like that?
02:38When the monster is alive, the monster will be found.
02:41If not, he will perish.
02:44Let us go for the truth.
02:46Tell me, did the police succeed in finding the monster, Baron Frankenstein?
02:51They did not.
02:51The search went on for days,
02:53and still there was no trace of the monster.
02:56But my hopes were high.
02:57I felt sure that the creature had wandered away somewhere in the hills,
03:01and there perished from cold and starvation.
03:05There came a day when I had almost forgotten the monster,
03:08and my experiments,
03:09they seemed like some dim dream of the past.
03:13I sought out Elizabeth's monster.
03:16Elizabeth, I feel sure that we will have no further fear of the strange creature
03:22for which I was responsible.
03:24I am asking you now,
03:25will you marry me and come away to England?
03:28Let us take a long journey together.
03:31But Victor, does your conscience allow you to leave here?
03:34Victor, are you sure that nothing further will be heard of this horrible creature?
03:38Oh, it is some months since the monster disappeared,
03:40and nothing has been heard of it.
03:42It is safe for me to go now, Elizabeth.
03:44How long shall we be away?
03:45For at least six months.
03:47Then we shall return here and settle down in my home.
03:50Oh, please say that you will marry me as soon as possible, Elizabeth.
03:54There is only one request I have to make of you, Victor.
03:57What is it?
03:58My sister's child, William, needs a home.
04:01His mother is very ill.
04:02His father is dead.
04:04Can he come and live with us?
04:06Well, of course.
04:07I am very fond of William.
04:08We shall adopt him,
04:10and he shall be as our own child.
04:11Oh, you are very kind, Victor.
04:14Oh, I am just a man in love with a beautiful woman.
04:17Now, let us go and tell your father.
04:19We will be married very soon,
04:20and we shall make all arrangements for our journey to be.
04:24Well, Baron Frankenstein,
04:25I trust you are not too tired to continue with the story?
04:29No, I am just marshalling the facts
04:30recalling my happy marriage,
04:32those glorious few months in England,
04:34and then my return home.
04:35How long did you remain in England?
04:37For eight months.
04:38We had a delightful holiday, Dale,
04:40and I returned to my ancestral home,
04:42and my wife and I settled down.
04:45During our absence,
04:46we had left the child William in charge of a nurse,
04:49whom we called Justine.
04:51She was an old friend of the family.
04:53She had known my wife for years.
04:55A few days after our return,
04:57Justine approached my wife,
04:58and I...
05:01Most of William desires
05:02that I shall take him out for a walk.
05:04Do you think the weather is clear enough, Baroness?
05:07Oh, I think the child could go for a walk.
05:10What do you think, Victor?
05:11By all means,
05:12the sun is shining brightly now,
05:14although there are clouds on the horizon.
05:16Clouds on the horizon?
05:18Six, black clouds.
05:20I fear there may be a storm.
05:22Oh, just such a storm as one...
05:27Please, Victor,
05:28we agreed never to talk of that.
05:30Well, may I take the child for a walk?
05:33Yes, just a short walk down to the lake, Justine.
05:36Tell me, Justine,
05:37do you like the child?
05:39Do you think that young Master William shows promise?
05:42Yes, he is rather a baby child,
05:45with a very strong will of his own.
05:47But I am fairly strict with him.
05:50Oh, you must not be too strict with him.
05:52Remember, we were all young ones.
05:55I will remember that, Baroness.
05:57All right, take him out now.
05:59But do not take him any further than the lake.
06:01If there are any signs of an approaching storm,
06:04bring William home at once.
06:05I will, Madame.
06:10Tell me, Elizabeth,
06:12what do you think of Justine?
06:14Oh, I have known her for years, my dear.
06:16But you do not seem to like her.
06:19She is rather a grim and forbidding woman.
06:21Oh, in reality,
06:22she has a very kind heart.
06:25Come over here, Elizabeth.
06:27Look out of the window.
06:29What is the matter?
06:30Look at those strange black clouds
06:32on the far horizon.
06:33They fill me with a sense of grim foreboding.
06:37Victor!
06:38Clouds gathered like dots
06:39on the day that I created the monster.
06:42Victor, do not think about it.
06:45The monster is dead.
06:46It is 12 months since he disappeared.
06:49But is he dead?
06:51The body has never been found.
06:54Darling,
06:55do you not think we would have heard
06:56if the monster had still been alive?
06:59I suppose so.
07:03Did you hear that?
07:05Thunder in the distance.
07:06Oh, I hope Justine
07:08has the intelligence
07:09to bring William home
07:10before the storm
07:11showed signs of breaking.
07:12Why am I seized
07:13by this nameless fear?
07:16That thunder frightened me.
07:18Darling,
07:18do not think of the past.
07:20Let us talk of something else.
07:22We know that your friend
07:24Ernst is due tomorrow.
07:25We hope he stays with us
07:27for some weeks.
07:28I will be glad
07:28to see Ernst again,
07:29but in a way
07:30he will remind me
07:31of the horrors of the past.
07:32Oh, you must do your best
07:34to forget.
07:35You must try and forget
07:36that the monster ever existed.
07:38I must tell myself that.
07:40I created the monster
07:42and now that monster is dead.
07:43I will never see it again.
07:49Victor,
07:51what can I hear?
07:56That dreadful sound,
07:59strange dragging footsteps.
08:00The footsteps are approaching
08:03this door.
08:04For Victor,
08:05I am frightened.
08:07The footsteps have stopped.
08:10Victor,
08:11what can it mean?
08:14Look, Elizabeth.
08:16The door
08:17is opening slowly.
08:20So slowly.
08:24Frankenstein,
08:25my master,
08:27we meet again.
08:29The monster.
08:31The monster.
08:31This cannot be.
08:32I told myself
08:32that the monster
08:33no longer exists.
08:35It is many months
08:37since we have met,
08:39my master,
08:40and now all that you desire.
08:43I can walk,
08:45I can move freely,
08:47I can think,
08:49and I can sleep.
08:52Where,
08:52where have you been?
08:55Living in the woods
08:56these many months.
08:58watching other folks,
09:00learning to speak
09:01as they speak,
09:03and almost dying
09:04from intolerable loneliness.
09:07I come to make terms
09:08with you,
09:09my master.
09:11Terms?
09:12What mean you by that?
09:14Victor,
09:15he looks too horrible.
09:17That awful face.
09:19Your long,
09:21shambling legs.
09:22Only it is not tall.
09:24Calm yourself,
09:25please,
09:25Elizabeth.
09:25I am an object
09:27of hatred
09:27and scorn
09:28and derision
09:29wherever I go.
09:31You did this,
09:32Frankenstein.
09:33You gave me life,
09:34but a life
09:35which is filled
09:36with misery.
09:37All men,
09:38all women
09:39turn from me.
09:40Why did you
09:41give me life
09:42so that I may
09:43suffer?
09:44If I had a gun,
09:45I would put an end
09:46to the life
09:46which I gave you.
09:47I would destroy you.
09:48I do not wish
09:50to die.
09:50I wish to live.
09:52I wish to be happy
09:53as other men are.
09:55Why?
09:56What do you ask
09:57of me?
09:58You made me.
10:00You gave life
10:01to me.
10:02Now make a maid
10:03for me,
10:04a woman
10:05who may share
10:06my life with me.
10:09What you ask
10:10is impossible.
10:12It shall be
10:13my mission in life
10:13to destroy you.
10:15Did you not
10:16kill my servant?
10:17That matters not.
10:18We will talk
10:19of this again.
10:21I have come
10:22to make a bargain
10:23with you.
10:23Give me a companion,
10:25someone to share
10:26my loneliness.
10:27Why should I not
10:28know happiness
10:29as others know it?
10:31Victor,
10:31you must not
10:32grant his request.
10:34Fear not,
10:34Elizabeth.
10:35I will never grant it.
10:36So be it,
10:37Frankenstein.
10:39You and yours
10:40shall suffer for this.
10:41What mean you,
10:42my daughter?
10:43I killed one man
10:45and I can kill others.
10:47And unless you
10:48read my demand,
10:49unless you fashion
10:51for me a mate,
10:52then you and all
10:53your family
10:54will suffer.
10:55I will kill them
10:56just as I killed
10:57that man.
10:58I will kill all
11:00who stand in my path.
11:01I will leave
11:02a trail of death
11:03and destruction
11:04wherever I go.
11:05But I will not
11:07kill you.
11:08You shall live on
11:09until I bend you
11:10to my will.
11:11The creature
11:12shall rule the master.
11:14Oh, monster,
11:15I shall kill you now.
11:17That's the only,
11:18American.
11:19Please don't be careful.
11:21He is not dead.
11:24He laid his hands
11:25on me
11:26and I hurled him away.
11:30Rise to your feet,
11:32Frankenstein.
11:33I am powerless
11:34to destroy
11:35the thing
11:36which I created.
11:38You are powerless.
11:40We shall meet again.
11:42You have refused
11:43my demand,
11:45but you shall
11:46hear from me.
11:49Farewell,
11:51Frankenstein.
11:53Victor,
11:54do not go after him.
11:55He will kill you.
11:56Elizabeth,
11:56what can I do?
11:57You hurt his threat.
11:58Let us gather
11:59the villagers together
12:00so that by uniting
12:01we may destroy him.
12:02One man cannot prevail
12:04against him,
12:04but many will succeed
12:06in killing him.
12:06You are right,
12:07Elizabeth.
12:08I swear that the monster
12:09of my creation
12:11shall die tonight.
12:12Did you succeed
12:13in finding the monster
12:14that night,
12:14Baron Frankenstein?
12:15Ask me no more now,
12:16Captain Walton.
12:18I am tired.
12:19I must not
12:20overtax my strength.
12:22Let me rest now.
12:23You will rest now,
12:24and I will write
12:25the notes of your story
12:26in my journal.
12:28So be it.
12:29Come to me tomorrow,
12:30and I will tell you
12:31of the horrors
12:32which prepare me.
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